MANDIR - MASJID
3 weeks ago
Monday, May 19, 2008
HUMANS?!?!?! ARE WE REALLY????
Still totally jobless as mentioned in my previous post. Thought of spending this beautiful sunday with few ancestors and their friends. So we went on a lion safari. As goes the Murphy's law, we reached late by five mins and had to wait for the next van (which takes a tour through forests for tigers and lions and...) till 2 30 p.m( we had reached by 1 30 p.m). We visited the nearby zoo. A panther was sleeping or basking in the sun (wat ever, perhaps after a heavy lunch :)). A five yr old kid was pouring water on it and trying to make it move or get some sort of action from it. I just went up to her and said its wrong to do these to animals who already have restricted lifestyle ( I am no Maneka Gandhi, still...) She simply pointed her finger to her mom some where on the other side, who was throwing twings and sticks on another sleeping panther. I felt no point in speaking any further and walked off. Want to know will they have the guts to do this to unchained or uncaged animals? This idea of fun at the cost of hurting animals,, worth it???
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I make two observations - 1. Our civilization and development is hinged on a fear for the elements of nature, such as animals in the wild, and a sense of tense security when these elements of nature are seemingly over-powered by technology. The latter is what you have witnessed. The lady, and her child, are beneficiaries, or victims as I see them, of this sense of security. By provoking the animal with the intention of it to attempt to attack them, they want to reassure themselves of the security of their world's technology fuelled civilization.
2. There is no evidence of an engraved inscription as strong and permanent as a parent, especially mother, influencing the thinking pattern of her child. As a parent, a person is bestowed with the greatest power, and the associated responsibility, of setting blindly-followed examples for the child. The person has to exercise this power with extreme caution. The incident you have witnessed is an extreme misuse, or waste, of this power.
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